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Presidential Retribution (Executive Watch)

The DOJ Threatens to Demolish the Kennedy Center If a Judge Won’t Let Trump Rename It After Himself
President Trump will do anything to get his name on the Kennedy Center.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Threatens a $5 Billion Defamation Suit Against a Think Tank Whose Report Exposed That the National Guard Has Failed to Lower Violent…
The Center for American Progress, a left-of-center think tank, published a report in July finding “no evidence” that Trump’s National Guard deployments…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s DOJ Refuses to Give Up its Persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Back in May, a U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s DOJ Weaponized Baseless Allegations of Antisemitism to Target Universities, Whistleblower Confirms
A judge shot down the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Harvard, rejecting the government’s bid to withhold grant funding on grounds that it…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s DHS Investigates the Protesters, Not the CBP Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti
Just days after CBP agents taking part in the out-of-control immigration enforcement “Operation Metro Surge” shot and killed Alex Pretti, DHS opened…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Wants the DOJ to Again Prosecute the Reflecting Pool ‘Vandal’ After His Own U.S. Attorney Conceded That a Crony Contractor Botched the…
At the end of July, it looked as if the saga of Trump’s repeated claims of vandalism at the reflecting pool had finally come to an end, as even Jeanine…
 • Executive Watch
The Secret Service Falsified an ‘Emergency’ to Track Comey’s Phone Over an Instagram Post, Even After Being Warned It Was Illegal
Former FBI Director James Comey is fighting to get his indictment over a since-deleted Instagram post—seashells arranged to read “86 47”—thrown out as…
 • Executive Watch
Department of Energy Admits it Canceled Grants for Blue States Just Because They Didn’t Vote for Trump
Last October the Trump administration canceled almost $8 billion in grants for clean energy projects, ostensibly to reduce federal spending and waste.
 • Executive Watch
A Judge Shut Down the DOJ’s Attempt to Subpoena New York Times Reporters for Covering His Qatari Jet’s Security Flaws
Donald Trump flew in his shiny “new” Qatari jet to the recent NATO summit in Ankara, but left Turkey aboard the older Air Force One, switching back to…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Threatens to Sue ABC News for Reporting Honestly on His Reflecting Pool Fiasco
Fresh off blaming vandals for the algae and peeling paint plaguing his Reflecting Pool renovation, Donald Trump turned his fire on the press for…
 • Executive Watch
Trump DOJ Targets California’s Anti-Trump Governor and a Prospective Democratic Presidential Candidate, Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom has accused Donald Trump of adding him and his wife to the presidential “hit list” of political enemies, and reporting confirms Newsom’s…
 • Executive Watch
Kash Patel’s Hunt for a ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Against Trump Wrecked Careers and Turned Judges Against the Justice Department
FBI Director Kash Patel’s obsession with uncovering a “deep state” plot against Donald Trump has, over the past year, hardened into a defining feature…
 • Executive Watch
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